Rapidly. Yet here in california, were seeing the number of new cases decline. Today three bay area counties improved their standing on the states restriction list. Alameda, san mateo and solano counties moved. That means restaurants can open. Only two bay area counties remain in the purple tier. The most restrictive in the states system. Contra costa and sonoma. There is hope for parents who want to get their children back in school. Two San Francisco private schools have been given the green light for holding inperson trucks. They applied for and were granted permission to open classrooms. Health officials are reviewing the applications for 40 other San Francisco private charter and parochial schools. Abc7 news report he kate larsen looks at what a difference the changes make or dont make. Reporter with most bay area county in the red, it meansle businesses can reopen indoors with limited capacity including restaurants, retail, museums, places of worship, movie theaters and gyms. Out
Accusing Republican Organization of a double standard and say leader Mitch Mcconnell justified blocking president obamas nominee in 2016 because it was an election year, yet republicans claim then it was different, because the white house and senate were controlled by different parties. Its just hypocrisy at its highest level. Meanwhile, President Trump said he is narrowing his selection. I would say that im very close to making a decision in my own mind. Reporter fox confirming he met with judge amy comey bear it on monday. Other frontrunners include judge barbara lagoa, and Allison Jones rushing. This will i think unify republicans, this nominee. Reporter joe biden saying left on the topic from the campaign trail, but greg republicans should hold off until november. In were in the middle of an election. They should wait. Reporter the president said he is wait forecast weekend to announce his mom pa knee out of respect for justice ginbsburg. She will lie in repose at the Supreme Court
Down. One thing that hings can cha better, they can also change for the worse. Reporter wednesday all schools can resume in Person Instruction in Santa Clara County without a waiver, but most Public School districts have indicated they plan to continue with district learning for now. If the numbers continue down this trend, you know, lower cases, lower infection rates, then it is possible for amortize move the next level, which is the orange level. Reporter contra costa ask sonoma counties are the only bay area counties still in the most restrictive purple tier. Contra costas Health Director said this afternoon she expects her county to move up to the red tier by next week. Julie . Maureen, as you reported, Alameda County is moving to the less restrictive red tier, but it still cant open like the other counties. Why is that . Julie, it all comes down to your local county health department. The state has their standards, but it really can be whoever is more strict, and what were seeing
Much more on all those stories coming up in just a bit. But now its time to get a check of the Weather Forecast for the first time this saturday morning was the high today of spark a good morning robin good morning, good morning everybody in a live shot coming in from the golden gate fog checking in again this morning looks like an. Fairly think is what we got going on not much the way of wind circulation here we keep it to the Single Digits to calm dont expect that to improve outside of just local winds to some degree and im pretty re here. We have of the fog going on which will mix out to only give us kind of hazy sky conditions into the afternoon comes back again in greece has to tomorrow with promises of not being quite as intense although we saw this yesterday like this. But it looks like it may not be as intense. According to the forecasts projections here looking forward into tomorrow morning. But we do have a heat wave coming our way though beyond that right now we have lower 6
So please stay indoors if you can. Because we are looking at that air quality you can see those red and purple dots from unhealthy to hazardous air quality conditions. So looking at very unhealthy air to hazardous for redwood city and down through san jose and fremont and the trivalley as well as for concord. The east bay, walnut creek. Looking at very unhealthy air for oakland and hazardous air in the San Francisco area. Up through sausalito. You can see all of those purple dots. That is very unhealthy air to hazardous up through san rafael and petaluma and for santa rosa. We also have, because of the foggy conditions, the smoky conditions, low visibility. We have a dense fog advisory for the San Francisco area as well as the peninsula, coast and north coast. Visibilities down to a quarter mile or less. Lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic and the foggy conditions. Yeah, most of the foggy conditions affecting the bridges as well. Fog advisories for the Golden Gate Bridge as